I haven't played in so long. It's about time to try it out again. I'm happy to see that there is now a self-updating download so you can play offline. Awesome. Unfortunately, it won't run on my EeePC that I'm using right now. It only achieves at most 7 FPS and when I actually try to interact with it it drops to like 1. Oh well, I'll give it a shot when I get home tonight.

You are not using the diamonds to destabilize a country are you?

Sweet, that one does run on my Eee! Though the folding is a little difficult with a trackpad (for me especially because I almost never use them).

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I'm currently stuck on room 19.

That problem was solved years ago. It supports WASD so use those instead.

The only thing I don't like about Flash is its non-free licensing. In particular, that you have to pay hundreds of dollars to develop, at least in the feature rich studio. Also, it has poor support under Linux, though with 32-bit Redhat or Debian-based distributions it appears to be pretty easy to install now (as they have software repositories you can add).

Flash has advantages over Java. It's easier to install and update Flash on Windows-based machines. I suppose it's about the same whether Flash or Java on Linux (at best). It is improving though.

I imagine this game was a lot easier to write in Flash/ActionScript than it would have been in C or C++ and Allegro, etc. Probably a lot easier than writing it in Java too. Not to mention, with the C/C++ version, you'd have to worry about cross-compiling and writing platform independent code and installation on various systems, etc. It's a whole lot easier to distribute software over the Web.

I found a huge floating island, big enough for a full-sized castle to be built on it. It's about a day of walking south of my starting position.

I'm thinking of mining a bunch of obsidian later and redoing the entire castle in it. I know were a whole bunch is (ran water & lava while mining).

The developer is working on multiplayer mode this week. It'd be cool to have an allegro server or something

I think he is... He did for the Creative Multiplayer mode. His latest blog post says that he is making the server scriptable so people can create their own plugins and such.

I'm having a really hard time finding copper in the newest version. It makes building roller coasters a pain in the butt But my castle in the sky is going well otherwise. Gonna try and make some ladder/stairs/minecart systems to help get to and from my mines.

I also wanna see if minecarts will fly through the air and land ...

I tried playing for the first time in a long time a couple of days ago. I had trouble building sticks, but that was because the lumber had to go through an in between phase first. I finally noticed this after looking really closely at the crafting guide. A 'how to get started' guide basically was full of advice from experienced players and they all basically said that the first thing you do in the alpha is make torches. This requires coal apparently (it's been so long many beers that I don't remember). So I found some coal, but when I actually dug up the blocks no coal was dropped! I dug through an entire deposit of probably 8 blocks of coal, but got nothing from it. Is this a bug or has this part of the gameplay changed?

Excellent. Thanks! Though I'm not sure about how explicitly it shows the need for a pick-axe. If I'm reading it the way you are then it also suggests that you need an axe for lumber, but I was clearly able to "chop" it by hand.

And punch wool off a sheep!

Why is it that I keep making tunnels through mountains?

It'd be rather silly to make a tunnel through a plain or valley.